Books: Artstag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/47612015-03-30T10:41:37ZBook news and reviews from The Plain Dealer on cleveland.comMovable Type Enterprise 4.29-advanceApril brings authors T.C. Boyle, Central Park Jogger Tricia Meili, Mary Roach to town: Reading Roomtag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.155666652015-03-26T13:41:12Z2015-03-26T14:10:48ZJoanna Connors, The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/jconnors/index.htmlLeBron! Kevin! You can be friends, with a little help from your friend's book ideastag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.155941902015-03-30T10:41:37Z2015-03-30T12:33:44ZThere are so many books about friendship, and how to be a better friend, and what to do when your friend gives you stink-eye and you're like, What?Joanna Connors, The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/jconnors/index.html
There are so many books about friendship, and how to be a better friend, and what to do when your friend gives you stink-eye and you're like, What?
In 'Roosevelt and Stalin,' Susan Butler argues that FDR was after a pragmatic partnership with the Soviet leadertag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.155614772015-03-25T18:43:43Z2015-03-25T19:53:30ZWhile other historians and biographers have extensively explored the relationship between these two titans - along with the third leader of the Grand Alliance, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill - this very readable narrative adds color and absorbing detail.Alan Catehttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/alcate/index.html
While other historians and biographers have extensively explored the relationship between these two titans - along with the third leader of the Grand Alliance, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill - this very readable narrative adds color and absorbing detail.
Denis and Gail Boyer Hayes mean well in 'Cowed,' their disquisition on the beef industry, but it's the reader who feels that waytag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.155613172015-03-25T18:32:06Z2015-03-25T20:05:13Z"Cowed" covers such topics as regenerative agriculture, robotic milking (an amazing technology) and lab-grown meat, or "cultured beef" (a repulsive idea that some people, including the authors, are apparently taking seriously: It's good for the environment).Mark Gamin, Special to The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/mgaminbooks/index.html
"Cowed" covers such topics as regenerative agriculture, robotic milking (an amazing technology) and lab-grown meat, or "cultured beef" (a repulsive idea that some people, including the authors, are apparently taking seriously: It's good for the environment).
'Lincoln and the Jews' tells the story of how the 16th president escaped the prejudices of his timetag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.155106722015-03-19T15:34:37Z2015-03-19T15:40:56ZLincoln's tolerance was not typical of the time. The authors show how even noted abolitionists expressed vicious anti-Semitic sentiments. Theodore Parker, for example, suggested that Jews' intelligence "was sadly pinched in those narrow foreheads" and supposed that Jews sometimes murdered Christian babies at Passover.Kathy Ewinghttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/kewingbooks%2C%20Special%20to%20The%20Plain%20Dealer/index.html
Lincoln's tolerance was not typical of the time. The authors show how even noted abolitionists expressed vicious anti-Semitic sentiments. Theodore Parker, for example, suggested that Jews' intelligence "was sadly pinched in those narrow foreheads" and supposed that Jews sometimes murdered Christian babies at Passover.
In 'Our Kids,' Ohio native Robert D. Putnam finds an 'opportunity gap' that few poor children can leaptag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.155105942015-03-19T15:27:50Z2015-03-19T15:33:17ZNow the Harvard social scientist is back with another take on an epic social problem. In "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis," Putnam explores income inequality and its inevitable offspring, the "opportunity gap." And he does so from a place that lends the story power and poignancy. Robert L. Smith, The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/rlsmith/index.html
Now the Harvard social scientist is back with another take on an epic social problem. In "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis," Putnam explores income inequality and its inevitable offspring, the "opportunity gap." And he does so from a place that lends the story power and poignancy.
New in paperback: 'The Evening Chorus,' 'Creating Innovators,' 'Long Man' and moretag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.155104582015-03-19T15:13:11Z2015-03-19T15:25:11ZDonna Marchetti, Special to The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/dmarchetti/index.htmlMichael Robotham's potent new thriller, 'Life or Death,' reveals how a likable guy wound up doing hard timetag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.155103342015-03-19T15:06:43Z2015-03-19T15:12:03ZRobotham, an Australian, has worked as a journalist and written other novels ("Say You're Sorry"), but this is his best. The story is as cinematic as it is literary, and you'll be casting the movie in your head as you race from one scene to the next.Michele Ross, Special to The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/miross/index.html
Robotham, an Australian, has worked as a journalist and written other novels ("Say You're Sorry"), but this is his best. The story is as cinematic as it is literary, and you'll be casting the movie in your head as you race from one scene to the next.
Equal justice lawyer Bryan Stevenson wants Americans to talk honestly about history and racial injustice tag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.154962122015-03-17T21:54:29Z2015-03-18T16:39:05Z"Disconnect" is a word Stevenson uses a lot. "The book is about the way we're disconnected from so many realities," he said. The realities he means have to do with grave injustice and racial inequality in a country many people believe is "post-racial," after the election of America's first black president.Joanna Connors, The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/jconnors/index.html
"Disconnect" is a word Stevenson uses a lot. "The book is about the way we're disconnected from so many realities," he said. The realities he means have to do with grave injustice and racial inequality in a country many people believe is "post-racial," after the election of America's first black president.
New in mysteries: 'Winter Siege,' 'Endangered,' 'Inspector of the Dead' and moretag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.154522532015-03-13T15:30:01Z2015-03-13T15:32:05ZMichele Ross, Special to The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/miross/index.htmlNational Book Critics Circle awards go to graphic memoir by Roz Chast, novel by Marilynne Robinson, moretag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.154581842015-03-13T13:01:27Z2015-03-13T15:12:48ZThe National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its 2014 book awards Thursday in a ceremony in New York. The prizes, given annually since the group's inception in 1974, are highly regarded in the publishing industry.Joanna Connors, The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/jconnors/index.html
The National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its 2014 book awards Thursday in a ceremony in New York. The prizes, given annually since the group's inception in 1974, are highly regarded in the publishing industry.
New in paperback: 'A Replacement Life,' 'Operation Paperclip,' 'Watching You' and moretag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.154501582015-03-13T12:00:01Z2015-03-13T12:08:18ZDonna Marchetti, Special to The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/dmarchetti/index.htmlReif Larsen's 'I Am Radar' is a maze of improbable stories, feints and tricks, yielding a rare intellectual pleasuretag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.154417992015-03-12T19:00:01Z2015-03-12T19:02:04ZEarl Pike, Special to The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/epikebooks/index.htmlImitation, authenticity and role-playing are at the heart of Jacob Rubin's darkly comic novel 'The Poser'tag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.154416012015-03-12T15:30:01Z2015-03-12T15:32:23ZTricia Springstubb, Special to The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/tspringstubb/index.htmlIn 'Rust,' his first book, journalist Jonathan Waldman is an amusing tour guide to all things corrosivetag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.154414882015-03-12T12:00:01Z2015-03-12T19:05:58ZMark Gamin, Special to The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/mgaminbooks/index.htmlThe Civil War continues to cast a long shadow in James M. McPherson's insightful 'The War That Forged a Nation'tag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.153908322015-03-06T11:06:58Z2015-03-06T11:07:51ZIn "The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters," our premier Civil War historian, in a dozen separate essays, reflects on his more than 50 years of thinking and writing about our great sectional struggle. And although he doesn't explicitly mention exceptionalism, he repeatedly reminds us how that conflict reveals the many ways in which our history is exceptional, for better and - perhaps in some ways - for worse as well.Alan Catehttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/alcate/index.html
In "The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters," our premier Civil War historian, in a dozen separate essays, reflects on his more than 50 years of thinking and writing about our great sectional struggle. And although he doesn't explicitly mention exceptionalism, he repeatedly reminds us how that conflict reveals the many ways in which our history is exceptional, for better and - perhaps in some ways - for worse as well.
New for young readers: 'Writer to Writer,' 'Rain Reign,' 'My Heart Is Laughing' and moretag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.153906542015-03-06T10:41:54Z2015-03-06T10:42:23ZTricia Springstubb, Special to The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/tspringstubb/index.htmlMary Doria Russell completes her engaging tale of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp and the O.K. Corral with 'Epitaph'tag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.153905362015-03-06T01:28:04Z2015-03-06T02:00:01ZAdroitly shifting points of view throughout, Russell assembles her cast in Tombstone, where her prodigious historical research illuminates the personalities and politics that propelled the combatants toward that corral.Daniel Dyer, The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/dadyer/index.html
Adroitly shifting points of view throughout, Russell assembles her cast in Tombstone, where her prodigious historical research illuminates the personalities and politics that propelled the combatants toward that corral.
New in paperback: 'Fourth of July Creek,' 'Redeployment,' 'Boy, Snow, Bird' and moretag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.153904642015-03-06T01:17:54Z2015-03-06T02:03:06ZVikas Turakhiahttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/viturakhia/index.htmlMarch Reading Room: Chang-rae Lee, Phil Klay among authors coming to Northeast Ohiotag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.153273472015-02-27T11:12:23Z2015-02-27T11:12:43ZThe Reading Room Look here near the beginning of each month for our list of upcoming author appearances around Northeast Ohio, then clip and save. Now you won't miss a single chance to see and hear your favorite author. Send...Joanna Connors, The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/jconnors/index.html
The Reading Room Look here near the beginning of each month for our list of upcoming author appearances around Northeast Ohio, then clip and save. Now you won't miss a single chance to see and hear your favorite author. Send...
Rena Pederson tells the inspiring story of pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi in 'The Burma Spring'tag:www.cleveland.com,2015:/books/index.ssf/4761.153271202015-02-27T00:47:59Z2015-02-27T20:43:41ZHow modern Burma decayed into soulless, totalitarian ruin under the rule of a cabal of generals, and how Aung San Suu Kyi came to embody the revived hope of modern Burma, is the subject of Rena Pederson's weighty new volume, "The Burma Spring: Aung San Suu Kyi and the New Struggle for the Soul of a Nation."Earl Pike, Special to The Plain Dealerhttp://connect.cleveland.com/user/epikebooks/index.html
How modern Burma decayed into soulless, totalitarian ruin under the rule of a cabal of generals, and how Aung San Suu Kyi came to embody the revived hope of modern Burma, is the subject of Rena Pederson's weighty new volume, "The Burma Spring: Aung San Suu Kyi and the New Struggle for the Soul of a Nation."